Hebrew vs Saurashtra

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Saur

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Saurashtra is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (82 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Saurashtra reads Left-to-right.

שלום עולם
כתב עברי
ꢱꢵꢬꢵ꣄

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Saurashtra
ISO Code Hebr Saur
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern South Asian
Characters 134 82
Languages 5 1
Script Type Abjad Abugida
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Brahmi
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+A880–U+A8D9

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Saurashtra

1 language

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.